Air Force federal agents apparently conclude search of Beavercreek house

Credit: DaytonDailyNews

Federal agents from the Air Force Office of Special Investigations on Wednesday searched a Beavercreek home.

Agents at the home in the 2300 block of Pine Knott Drive said they were not able to comment on the status of their investigation.

They left the residence Wednesday evening without comment.

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Linda Card, spokeswoman for the AFOSI, said the General Services Administration’s Office of the Inspector General is the lead agency on the investigation. The GSA provides workplaces by constructing, managing and preserving government buildings and by leasing and managing commercial properties, according to the federal agency’s website.

This news organization has reached out to the GSA’s Office of the Inspector General for more information regarding the Wednesday search.

A spokesman for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base declined comment.

The search of the home on Pine Knott Drive comes after a federal search of a home in Fairborn in May. There is no indication at this time that the two searches are connected.

AFOSI agents found more than 1,000 top secret Air Force documents in the raid and search of that home on Harmony Lane in Fairborn.

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Izaak Vincent Kemp, 33, a contractor at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright-Patt, told investigators he printed 1,000 pages of classified information and took that sensitive material to his Fairborn home, federal records show.

Many pages of information Kemp took home with him were clearly marked “top secret.”

The search of Kemp’s home started off as a routine investigation by Fairborn police, court documents show. Police were searching for a marijuana growing facility when they searched Kemp’s home, according to court records.

“During a voluntary interview, which took place during execution of a (Fairborn police) search warrant, Kemp admitted to printing the classified materials at work and bringing them home for storage,” FBI special agent Brandt Pangburn said last month in an application for a search warrant of Kemp’s electronic devices.

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